Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Brachial lymph nodes

Organs of the immune system From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brachial lymph nodes
Remove ads

A brachial lymph nodes (or lateral group) are group of four to six lymph nodes which lies in relation to the medial and posterior aspects of the axillary vein; the afferents of these glands drain the whole arm with the exception of that portion whose vessels accompany the cephalic vein.

Quick Facts Details, System ...

The efferent vessels pass partly to the central and subclavicular groups of axillary glands and partly to the inferior deep cervical glands.

Remove ads

Additional images


References

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads